I admit that I have had quite the writer's block this week my friends!! Getting sick this week didn't help either! I was trying desperately to think of a funny story that I could tell you because Tracee is right...we were getting quite serious and intense there for a couple of entries and it is good to take a laughter break. I know I need it after this week!! (I don't know about you, but I am sure not in a laughter kind of place after being sick!)Anyway, like I said, I was trying to resurface a funny story from my life, and I know they are in there, but my brain won't let me retrieve one!! HA! As I was reflecting on my life and all the joy in it, I realized that the most common joy moments that I have is with my husband, William. He tells me often that there is never a dull moment when I am around. I remind him, that is the very reason he married me. It didn't always used to be like that for me. I was married before - got married young and thought I knew best - thought I had found true love, but the Creator of Love was not the center of it, therefore, love, true love could not reside. There was a lot of sad moments, tearful moments in that marriage. However, I wouldn't trade those moments because they forced growth within me.
I am so thankful that God gave William to me. I was not looking, and in fact had made my peace within myself not to remarry. God had other plans and He was moving FAST! William and I were introduced by his pastor (that Sunday we were introduced was my first time visit to that church), in March of 2001...We married in that same church, by that same pastor in July of 2001. I haven't really stopped smiling since. Sure, we have had our moments, and I can count on one hand the number of actual fights that we have had, but the joy moments? I lost count...(I don't have that many fingers and toes!!)
Right now, this very moment, I may not be able to pin-point a specific story, but as I reflect, I know that there has been more laughter than tears because he allows me to be me. He sees things in me that I have yet to discover...the potential, the creativity, the ability, even the confidence. I know that I would not be where I am in life and accomplished the things that I have without William beside me encouraging me to step out, to stretch myself, to believe in myself.
Isn't that just like our Heavenly Father too? These characteristics that are revealed to me through my husband are God given, God inspired and God created. God reveals Himself to you through others. All you have to do is look around. What do you see? What do others see in you? Are you allowing the character of God be revealed through you?
Genesis 1:27 - "So God created people in his own image; God patterned them after himself; male and female he created them."
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